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* Desktop workstation lists the most cheap and the most expensive Dell boxes, but the office workhorse Dell Optiplex is not listed. Listing Dell thrice and other brands only once isn't very fair though. I'd either group Dell together or also add more HP models and the Mac Mini and iMac.

* e-mail client lists KMail and Kontact separately. One could argue that they are the same from an e-mail perspective. The fact that Kontact integrates not only KMail but also KOrganizer, aKregator and many more doesn't change the fact that the mail component is identical. I'd personally list it as "KMail / Kontact" unless you really want the demographic information about which 'form' of kmail is used.

* Instant Messaging lists ksirc, but not Konversation, which is a far more user friendly IRC client for KDE, and likely even has more users nowadays. Please consider adding that option.

* Although it probably won't be chosen by anyone I think listing i386 under processor architecture is a good idea for fairness.

* Under server, 'hp dl series' is a specialisation of 'HP Proliant', since it's basically HP Proliant DL Series. If you want that specialisation then you should also list the Proliant ML and BL Series. And although I wouldn't choose them myself I think Dell PowerEdge also belongs there for completeness, and Apple's and Sun's offerings are missing too.

* Under system administration tool I miss KDE KioskTool, the GUI frontend for the Kiosk desktop lockdown framework, (Free)NX from NoMachine for remote desktops and possibly also the 'fish:' IO-slave in KDE to browse filesystems over SSH from Konqueror. Given that emerge and portage are listed one would also expect Apt and given Zenworks and Tivoli one would expect OpenView. Given Nagios I'm missing Big Brother and Big Sister. And then the list is even bigger, so it might be an idea to split the category in subcategories.

* training and linux training are the same AFAICS.

Quite a list of suggestions, I hope you don't mind and can incorporate some (all?) in the survey. :)

I too second the motion that there should be a category for best K12 educational apps/games/tools. There are some, perhaps many, and it is a very important place where the open source movement can contribute. Having the category would recognize those who already do, and encourage those who don't yet.

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